Dental CE Course: PAIN MEDICATIONS UPDATE FOR DENTISTS TREATING CHRONIC PAIN AND TMD

SYNOPSIS:


This two-day course will cover the medications used to treat chronic orofacial pain, including neurogenic,
musculoskeletal, headache, and uncommon pain disorders. To be able to treat patients with these problems, dentists must understand the underlying mechanisms of pain transmission, nerve injury and repair, sensitization, sympathetic pain maintenance, and spontaneous ectopic pain generation. Dentists must be able to perform various analgesic blocks and sensory testing procedures as well as understand how these procedures combined with historical information allow for a differential etiologic-based diagnosis to be made. This course is divided into lecture presentations in the morning, demonstrations and workshops in the afternoon, and specific case discussions at the end of the day.

TOPICS TO BE COVERED:


Issues of California drug law, the DEA/DOJ and using off-label prescriptions
Advances in pharmaco-genetics as a way of predicting drug to drug interactions and adverse drugs reactions
Treatment of chronic pain using behavioral, physical and surgical therapies
Use of an electronic medical record and automated computer-patient interface for medical documentation
PDA-based drug program
Pain diary and pain treatment agreements in dental practice
How to perform trigger point, botulinum toxin, and corticosteroid injections for pain and spasm

UPON COMPLETION YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:


Medications used in dentistry and the Law: What can be prescribed and what not?
Top 10 medications used in an OFP Specific Treatment Center
Metabolism of medications including liver enzymes systems
The various chronic pain diseases that appear in the orofacial region
Non-pharmacologic therapies for OFP
Pharmacogenetics and medication efficacy
Current approaches for treating non-malignant chronic orofacial pain
How to conduct a myofascial examination
How to perform therapeutic injections (trigger point, botulinum toxin and corticosteroids)